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For all of you with incubators. I have a computer UPS "uninterruptable power supply" that i plug my bator in. I took out the small battery and wired one of my 12v 115 amp hour deep cycle boat batteries to the unit. Now i have no worries about losing power. The battery can run my bator for around 4-5 days. Of course i have 3 batteries and can switch out if needed, but i never have had to do that.
 
Nothing to bad here, just rain. Did get some ice tho, but now it's gone. I am just hoping it passes quickly so there isn't any damage and the kids won't be to upset. Sounds like everyone is doing pretty good so far!

Crossing my fingers everyone makes it ok
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Simmonsfunnyfrm said:
Well, looks like this stormy weather has caused my broody hen to go un-broody. She had 8 eggs, all with chicks in them ready to hatch tomorrow...found them all stone cold today when I got home from school
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I put them under a brooder lamp in the house but I doubt they'll hatch now. So sad. It was going to be my first hatch ever.
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Don't give up on those cold eggs. If the temperature is right where you placed them in the brooder, they could still hatch.
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I had an egg roll out of a nest one evening when it went down to 22 degrees when I found it the next morning. I put it in my incubator and it hatched. It was over a day late to enter this world, but it was fine. Around this same time, I had a mallard duck setting somewhere. She got killed by a hawk and it took me 3 days to find her nest. Her 18 eggs were ice cold, but what did I have to loose? I gathered them and put them in the incubator. They started hatching about a week later. They're hatch ranged to a 3 day difference from the 1st to the last, and had 16 of the 18 hatched. On the other hand, I've had eggs be cold for only a few hours that died in the shell. Good luck.
 
Lots of ice on the trees around here and it's hardly stopped raining. It's only 33 now so the rain isn't really helping the ice melt at all. I'm pretty sure any trees stressed/damaged during our last ice storm are gonna be really struggling once it drops below freezing again tonight. Especially if it keeps raining. :/

On the plus side, all our animals are tolerating the cold alot better than I am! ;)

Hubby let the one pup we have left come inside with her momma though, since their kennel soaking wet inside. Needless to say, Snowball and "Little Girl" (as my husband has now come down with a case of total puppy love and named her that) are really enjoying the warmth and dryness of being inside! LOL

On a chicken note, I've been researching (and read through all 146 pages of posts) about feeding chickens using "fodder" and have been giving it some super serious consideration! Those 21 chicks we got are going through about a sack of feed every 10 days! And while that would be a total "non-issue" in normal circumstances but what we've got going on right now is totally beyond "normal" for us right now. Especially considering I do have over 100 #'s of wheat seed on hand already! :)

If we do end up going the fodder route, we'll probably begin feeding it to our rabbits too. I did a few calculations and we'd save quite a bit of money on a monthly basis. We can at least give it a try and see how it works!
 

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